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interpretation of the role/motiviation of the informant

posted 14 years ago by jriley555
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any speculation about what was going on?

was there a bit of class-envy at work in the plot- it appeared the informant's family was fairly prosperous, while the other boy, whose father and mother worked in a diary, would have not been as wealthy.

or perhaps keeping us in the dark about the 'suspects' (a few kids who like to get high) was a statement, itself, about the misapplication of concerns, surveillance.

my basic interp. of the film was that you had basically good people working thru a creaky infrastructure, and working out from a tradition of the police state.

the captain was, however, presented as a very intelligent, canny person. that was well done, and interesting all in its own right.

personally, i did think the film-makers were a little too unconcerned with pace - but nevertheless, an excellent film and character study.

[–] quendino 14 years ago

It's possible, judging by the way Cristi's character is built, that what you say can be true. But from other point of view it's totally unrealistic from the beggining.

First of all the real Romanian Police always over-reacts when it comes to drugs, even "soft" ones. They often tend to condemn simple users as "dealers", with the price of missing the big fish, which is hard to catch, but this way they fulfill their quota of arrestments and that means keeping their jobs. It's very unlikely that a cop, even a younger one like Cristi, will have consicence issues in a drug matter.

Second, a real cop will never bring to disgussion this kind of issues - remember the conversation at the end, with the dictionary. That is a Police Academy year 1, semester 1 talk. A real cop was supposed to have clear already in his mind the issues they talk about - the difference between law and "moral law" and conscience, no other arguments necesary.

Third, when the captain orders him to do the arrest and he says " I won't do it" - in real life he would have been sent to trial for dissobeying a direct order and get kicked out of the force eventually.

I know it's a film, but it was suposed to be hiper-realistic film, and all these are sending it far from reality.
that's why i'm saying this film succeeded at being boring big time but everything else is just thin and lacks substance.

[–] berd-sena 13 years ago

The Captain only displayed how much of a hypocrite he was and in fact I think the whole movie shows how corrupt and far from true justice the Police are and the System overall. The Golden Age of Communism and Ceausescu's Regime may have been long ago but things seem to never change, just another shade of gray.